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(JouRX. R. MiCR. Soc. 1910. pp. 273-281.) 



VIII. — Antipatharian.s from the Indian Ocean. 



By Sophia L. M. Summers, M.A. B.Sc. 

 (Natural History Department, University of Aberdeen.) 



{Read March 16, 1910.) 



(Plate V.) 



The Antipatharians here reported on were collected for the most 

 part at Ibo, in Portuguese East Africa, by Mr. Jas. Siiupsou, 

 M.A. B.Sc, Carnegie Fellow, University of Aberdeen. A few were 

 collected in the Mergui Archipelago by !Mr. R. X. Rudmose- 

 Brown, B.Sc, and Mi: Simpson. 



The collection includes fourteen species, of which three areaew. 

 The list is as follows. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE V. 



Fig. 1. — Antipathes abies Gray. Arrangement of spines, main axis. 

 „ 2. — A. salicoides sp.n. Arrangement of spines near the tip of the axis. 

 „ 3. — Pteropathes simpsoni s,p. u. Arrangement of spines. 

 „ 4. — Antipathes salicoides s'p.n. Arrangement of spines, main item. 

 „ 5. — Stichopat)ies bispinosa noxn.n. Arrangement of spines. 

 „ 6. — Antipathes abies Gray. Showing forked spines. 

 „ 7. — A. salicoides sp. n. Polyps on main branches. 

 „ 8. — A. tristis Duchassaing. .\rrangement of spines. 

 „ 9. — Cirripatlus iiulica sp. n. Arrangement of spines. 

 „ 10. — Stichopathcs bispinosa. Polj-ps. 

 „ 11. — S. echinulata. Polyps. 



